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Chicken Lal Mirch

A traditional Indian chicken lal mirch with paprika, leaf, green cardamom pods. Cooked from scratch with authentic spices.

20 min
Prep
40 min
Cook
Medium
Difficulty
15
Ingredients
7
Steps

Ingredients

Servings
  • 2 - 3 red chillies (about 20 gm)
  • 1 tspn paprika
  • 2 x 1 x 1 cm ginger (about 4 gm) (prepared weight)
  • ΒΌ heaped tspn turmeric
  • 100 gm onion (prepared weight)
  • 2 tbspn oil
  • 2 cloves garlic (about 10 gm)
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 3 tbspn chopped tomato
  • 2 green cardamom pods
  • 1/8 - ΒΌ tspn cumin seeds
  • 1 chicken breast
  • ΒΌ heaped tspn coriander seeds
  • ΒΌ tspn salt
  • ΒΌ tspn ground cinnamon

Method

  1. 1

    Cut the chicken breast into 3 or 4 pieces.

  2. 2

    Deseed (or leave seeds in if you like the heat) and roughly chop the chillies.

  3. 3

    Roughly chop the ginger.

  4. 4

    Roughly chop the onion.

  5. 5

    Roughly chop the garlic.

  6. 6

    Blend the chillies, ginger, onion, garlic, tomato, cumin seeds, coriander seeds, cinnamon and paprika to a smooth paste.

  7. 7

    Mix the turmeric into the paste (it would discolour the blender) and set aside.

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